'He didn't know this world' ; What do you really know about the sea?

This morning (11th July, 2013) Natalie and I were talking on facebook and she linked me a facebook page sighting of a beached whale in my local town (I can't find the facebook page anymore but here's a news article on it). Curious, I clicked on the picture and I think my heart slowed down a little. I wasn't aware whales swam this close to the coast in the North Sea, but I was gravely mistaken. I stared at the man stood beside the mammal, showing what had happened. I remember reading, 'I was on a walk along the beach when...'. It was uploaded about an hour and a half ago. It would still be...

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Misc;

Here are some edits that I made. They're not completely connected, and I'm also not sure where they fit into my flickr stream either... only the first one belongs in my Summer 100. Perhaps they belong in the comments section, or somewhere else in my stream. Together they sort of harbour the feelings I have had this summer: Taken the 2nd July while packing to visit Stephen near Sheffield.  Stephen from that day we went to the beach.  An overlay technique I got from Sarah Haley Stewart Unfortunately I don't have a cat, but Natalie and John have a cat that...

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I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air

A while back now my friend Katherine came up from Sheffield to see me. I never really had the thought processes lined up to blog about it properly at the time, but I think now's the time. Katherine unfortunately turned up late to my town due to delayed connections at York, which sent my mind racing in anticipation. She did eventually arrive, an hour later, and we dropped her stuff off at mine (her light packing sent me aback quite a lot - I usually pack half my flat to even go away for a weekend. I should be more like her, I decided). We set off into town and I showed her around the unimpressive...

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Rock Pools

The weather has been really good to us lately and has stayed sunny and warm for a few days. My boyfriend Stephen and I went to the beach for a couple of hours. The tide was coming in, but we had caught it as it was out, so there was no rush to get back to shore. In among the bladderwhack-seaweed there were limpets, tiny fish and shrimp and clusters of barnacles and sea-moss. Our feet picked between these parts onto the dry rock so that we didn't slip over, and while Stephen jumped between pools and crevices I went around them the long way, holding my camera up in protection. (sooc:...

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sea life

The other day Natalie and I went to the sea life centre and it was pretty ace. On the way there we were attacked relentlessly by these awful fly things and it was really horrible walking all the way up to North Bay and having insects go into your eyes, down your top, hitting your face. (sooc: Natalie at the beach huts) We arrived a lot later than we had intended and only had an hour - and then we were stopped, much to my mortification, to pose in front of a camera and pretend to be scared of a crab, so they could add in a lame layer to buy as a souvenir. Once that was over it was okay...

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I thought I'd start a photoblog with outtakes and additional content without cluttering up my flickr account.  I've been considering it a while since so many other people have them and it would be cool to show more photos that don't really "fit" into my flickr photostream.  Sew-my-life-back-together was a url that I initially laughed at, but sadly reflects how I actually feel. I'm a perfectionist, and don't always get things how I want them to be, so this blog is an outlet for that boxed in feeling.  Anyway, enough of that, hope you enjoy  L...

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